Automated License Plate Readers with ACLU Attorney Matt Cagle

The BTLJ Podcast

The BTLJ Podcast team sits down with ACLU Senior Staff Attorney Matt Cagle to discuss the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by police departments and other law enforcement entities. This interview was recorded on November 9, 2022. For more reading on this subject, refer to the following links. ACLU’s reports on ICE’s use of ALPR information to locate and target immigrants: ACLU NorCal: Documents Reveal ICE Using Driver Location Data From Local Police for Deportations (https://www.aclunc.org/blog/documents-reveal-ice-using-driver-location-data-local-police-deportations). ACLU NorCal: Records Reveal ICE Agents Run Thousands of License Plate Queries a Month in Massive Location Database (https://www.aclunc.org/blog/records-reveal-ice-agents-run-thousands-license-plate-queries-month-massive-location-database). Case page on ACLU of Northern California’s lawsuit against the Marin County Sheriff (Lagleva v. Doyle) challenging its illegal sharing of ALPR information with out-of-state and federal agencies. Under settlement, the Marin County Sheriff conceded that state law prohibits the widespread sharing of personal information and changed its policies (https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/legal-docket/lagleva-v-doyle-license-plate-surveillance#:~:text=Under%20the%20settlement%2C%20Sheriff%20Doyle,by%20the%20county's%20ALPR%20cameras.). Electronic Frontier Foundation: What You Can Learn from Oakland's Raw ALPR Data (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/what-we-learned-oakland-raw-alpr-data).